Frank's Red Hot
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Frank's Red Hot is a hot sauce made from Louisiana Sunlongs, a variety of cayenne pepper.
Its history dates back to 1896 to the Frank Tea and Spice Company founded by Jacob Frank near the banks of the Ohio River in Cincinnati, Ohio. Frank would in 1918 contract for the Estilette Pepper Farm in Louisiana where Adam Estilette and Jacob Frank became business partners. The two men mixed spices, vinegar, garlic and cayenne peppers; they blended them and allowed them to age, and created the original blend of Frank's Red Hot as it first appeared on the market in 1920.
It is known as the secret ingredient in the first buffalo wing sauce, concocted in 1964 by Teressa Bellissimo at the Anchor Bar and Grill in Buffalo, New York. As the story goes, Teressa and her husband Frank were about to close up for the evening when a group of their son Dominic's friends came in for a late night snack. To oblige them, Teressa prepared some chicken wings, splashed on a special sauce with Frank's RedHot Sauce and added celery and blue cheese dressing.
In 1977 Frank's Red Hot was sold to Durkee Famous Foods. As of 2005 it is owned by Reckitt Benckiser. Because Reckitt Benckiser also owns French's foods, Frank's Red Hot is now often marketed alongside and advertised with French's Mustard and Cattleman's BBQ sauce.
As the scale below shows, Frank's Red Hot is one of the mildest sauces sold as hot sauce. Most commercial hot sauces are as hot, or hotter, than Texas Pete.
Today, the company produces six different flavors all based around the original recipe:
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- Frank's Original RedHot Cayenne Pepper Sauce
- Frank's RedHot Buffalo Wing Sauce
- Frank's RedHot XTRA Hot Sauce
- Frank's RedHot Buffalo Sandwich Sauce
- Frank's RedHot Chile n' Lime Hot Sauce
- Frank's RedHot Gold Fever Zing Sauce
[edit] How hot is it?
| Scoville Scale [1] | |
| Frank's RedHot Original | 450 |
| Frank's RedHot Buffalo Wing Sauce | 284 |
| Frank's RedHot XTRA Hot | 2,085 |
| Frank's RedHot Buffalo Sandwich Sauce | 305 |
| Frank's RedHot Gold Fever Zing Sauce | 272 |
| TABASCO Red | 3,050 |
| Texas Pete | 747 |
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Frank's Red Hot - Official Home Page
- Recipes
- Frank's RedHot on the ChilliWorld Scoville Scale
- Franks Red Hot Canada
- More Recipes
